Browsing by Author "Saucier, Deborah"

Metzler, Megan J.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science(Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Neuroscience, c2010Arts and ScienceDepartment of Neuroscience, 2010)

Bimanual movement is integral to daily function. As such, it is important to understand factors that influence bimanual performance. Playing the piano was employed to examine bimanual movement. Additionally, the weather ...

Ejaredar, Maede; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science(Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Department of NeuroscienceArts and ScienceDepartment of Neuroscience, 2008)

Status epilepticus is prolonged seizure activity lasting for more than 30 minutes that result in a series of morphological alterations in the brain as well as some changes in the behaviour. Experiment 1 examined the relation ...

Christie, Gregory J; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science(Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Neuroscience, 2010Arts and ScienceDepartment of Neuroscience, 2010)

All sentient organisms use contextual information to assess the amount of reward associated
with a particular behavior. Human beings have arguably evolved the most sophisticated of these
mechanisms and are capable of ...

Ehresman, Crystal; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science(Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Neuroscience, c2010Arts and ScienceDepartment of Neuroscience, 2010)

Females exhibit superior object location memory (OLM) compared to males, but the reasons for this sex difference remains unknown. This thesis investigates the role of the dentate gyrus (DG) in an OLM task in normal rats ...